44 CYPRIPEDIUM. 



species under the name of loevigatum, the name by which it is still 

 best known in gardens ; it has recently been introduced from 

 another locality by Messrs. Sander and Co., through their collector 

 Eobelen. It belongs to the sub-section of the genus which includes 

 the species last described (Cypripedium ParishiiJ. It flowered for 

 the first time in this country in our Chelsea Nursery in March, 

 1865, but its normal flowering season is from two to three months 

 later. 



Cultural Xote. — Cypripedium philippinense has its home in one of 

 the hottest regions of the world, growing in the blaze of a tropical 

 sun and exposed to the force of the monsoon storms, climatic conditions 

 that are simply impossible in the glass structures of Europe. Never- 

 theless, the plant when once established will thrive and flower 

 regularly in the lightest part of the Phalamopsis house, or in some 

 such-like situation, where the highest temperature admitted in orchid 

 culture is maintained. 



C. purpuratum. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, 3—5 inches long, tesselated above with deep 

 and pale green, the latter shade usually predominating. Scapes 5 — 7 

 inches high, one-flowered, the bract about two-thirds the length of the 

 ovary. Flowers 3 — 3^ inches across vertically with the sepals and petals 

 ciliolate ; upper sepal sub-orbicular, cuspidate acute, folded at the mid- 

 vein, the sides revolute at the base, white with a greenish stain in the 

 centre and with 8 — 10 symmetrically curved brown-purple stripes ; lower 

 sepal ovate, acuminate, about one-third as large as the upper one, greenish ; 

 petals sub-spathulate, spreading, wavy, purplish crimson with sometimes 

 deep purple, sometimes green veins, and with numerous small blackish 

 warts towards the base; lip sub-cylindric, brownish purple with deeper 

 veins and reticulations, the infolded lobes purple with numerous small 

 warts. Staminode semi-lunate, with a notch behind and a small central 

 tooth in front, dull green stained with purple. 



' Cypripedium purpuratum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. XXIII. t. 1991 (1837). Id. Gen. et 

 Sp Orch. p. 530 (1840). Bot. Mag. t. 4901. Van Houtte's Fl. dcs Serres, XI. (1856), 

 t. 1158. Miq. Fl. ind. bat. III. p. 737. Benth. Fl. Hongkong, p. 364. C. sinicuni, 

 Hance PL nov. austro-cliin, fasc. 2, p. 1. 



First introduced about the year 1836 by Mr. Knight, our pre- 

 decessor at the Royal Exotic Nursery, who left no record of its 

 orio-in. The drawing in the Botanical Register was made from a 

 plant that flowered in the autumn of that year in the nursery of 

 Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, by whom it was communicated to 

 Dr. Lindley with the erroneous information that it came from the 

 Malayan Archipelago. Its only known habitat is in the island of 



